anders_CPH said:

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 217 lbs for 5 weeks.

Pushing back on anders_CPH here. The "it is your intake" reflex here gets tiring. Some people genuinely stop responding at a dose that worked, and telling them to track harder when they have already tracked is how people stop posting.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

One concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

DataDave said:

The "it is your intake" reflex here gets tiring.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

Following on from Dr.EndoEP — and this may be the naive question:

How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Rolling average over five weeks showed I had lost 1.6kg during my "plateau". The scale was noise and the tape had moved. I changed nothing and it resumed.